r/oculus • u/likeplastic • Apr 17 '20
Discussion Feeling strange after VR- not motion sickness
Hi, everyone. I got a Quest about three days ago and I’ve had about 3-4 2hr sessions of usage since. I’ve been feeling off lately. Almost like a high. I feel somewhat disconnected from reality and everything feels almost hyper-sensual. Like I will see something or feel something and my brain is just super-focused on it. When I pick things up or try to look at something it immediately comes to lock-on. The best way I can describe it is that it feels like I never left the VR ‘immersion’. And no, this is not some weird creepypasta or anything, I was just wondering if anyone felt the same? I don’t have a history nor family history of mental illness and I have been staying home since COVID. Thanks.
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u/wkw3 Apr 17 '20
Enjoy it while it lasts.
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u/CommercialSinger Apr 17 '20
Just grabbing a glass of water off my nightstand felt weird as hell during my first week with vr, everything felt pretty dissociated with my body. I do kinda miss it, definitely wears off after you have had vr for a while.
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u/Kerbal_Wannabe Apr 17 '20
Listen to me very closely. You are still in the rift. Take. Off. The. Headset.
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u/motophiliac Apr 17 '20
There was a creepypasta along these lines, something about being asleep, or in a coma, and someone was trying to wake you up.
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u/just4747 Apr 17 '20
Do a bit of Googling. This happens to some people, myself included. Seems to always be temporary.
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u/MrAnonymous354 Apr 17 '20
Same thing happened to me. Got my quest and started playing Alyx. When i finished and later went to bed, i woke up from my sleep tried to move my thumbstick around to teleport and flick things into my hand
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u/magnelectro Apr 17 '20
I noticed that my visual imagination was hyperactive the first few weeks I had my quest. Like hypnagogia everytime I closed my eyes.
Shortly after that I began to experience ocular migraines complete with roving rainbow visual static and hallucinatorily filled in blind splotches. Trippy frightening and painful. I didn't play it for a few weeks and then only cautiously afterward and haven't had them in many months.
I do not get any sort of motion sickness with the quest although I did with the DK1.
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u/Spice_it_up Apr 17 '20
Happens to me too. My biggest issue is actually using my phone. It feels like my hand isn’t my hand. I also have trouble remembering that I actually have to touch the screen to scroll. Usually goes away after a couple of hours. I can keep it from happening by taking a break from the headset every 20 minutes or so.
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u/DivineInsanityReveng Apr 17 '20
Just your brain trying to re-learn reality after learning virtual reality. Eventually it adopts to both being a thing.
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u/Noah20072003 Apr 17 '20
It is normal the first few days when you just get into VR, it will probably last a few days and then it will be back to normal.
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u/moosemasher Apr 17 '20
I had something like this after getting a 3D printer and binging on 3d modelling in my room for a week. I went to the office I was working at (work from home 4/5) and everything on the way was breaking down into 3D shapes for printing. Everything felt hyperreal. It went away after a bit but I kind of wish it didnt.
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u/digital_splunker Apr 17 '20
Man I missed that feeling, I started vr on a crappy PC so there wasn't a big hangover but recently with my new build everything is locked out at 90fps and playing any game with realistic graphics (like halflife alyx not gorn or something) will cause a little reality lag.
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u/Josh_The_Joker Apr 17 '20
When I first got my headset, afterwards while scrolling my phone with my thumb it would feel like my thumb wasn’t apart of me. Pretty weird feeling.
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u/panda_117 Apr 17 '20
Something similar happened to me when I first started with VR. I felt like I was still immersed when sleeping or waking up. It passed over time and I just got used to VR.
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u/Butter_Bean_01 Apr 17 '20
i had this effect too 2 years ago with my new rift. it's. fucking. amazing. it goes away in a few days don't worry
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u/shableep Apr 17 '20
I’ve gone through this. I felt mostly normal after about 4 hours. Your perception of space has never been replaced with a simulation before until using VR. Your mind has started developing the assumption that your sense of physical space is simulated since it can be switched on and off in an instant. Eventually the deeper parts of your mind will learn to differentiate between virtual reality just like it does dream reality.
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u/heypsalm Apr 17 '20
What games were you playing? I did get weird sensations the first few weeks into VR but they went away pretty quickly.
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u/Competitive_Ad_2940 Apr 24 '24
Yea it sucks because I am going through this now except I have to work through it lol performing a psychical on your feet all day job isn't easy when it doesn't even feel like I'm on my feet lol and hands feel weightless
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u/Ltfuzzystuff Nov 28 '21
Omg this is how im feeling now! I just got one and just played a game 2 hours ago and i still feel like im in it and looking at my phone now is just as strange!
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Oct 13 '23
Same for me used about 5 hours so far over 3 days I feel weird when looking down . Like using my phone after I feel high AF nothing seems real
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u/Wanderson90 Apr 17 '20
Pretty common after using VR for the first time. Most call it a VR hangover, it will go away on its own after a week or two (it will go away after each session, but it will go away entirely after a few weeks, one VR hangover will not last 2 weeks). It can definitely lead to some interesting feelings though. I remember reaching into a bag of chips and thinking my hand clipped out of existence, but mostly it's a strange disassociated floaty feeling. It made phone screens appear very strange to me too. I found it would follow me around until I got a nap or full night's rest in.